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All Things Green Bay PackersTue, 06 Dec 2016 08:58:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: 56Coophttps://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/i-hate-bees/#comment-7381
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:55:26 +0000http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3518#comment-7381I was splitting wood with a buddy of mine yesterday & this lone yellow jacket kept hovering around. It got down in the 40’s here night before last so the bee was a bit lethargic. All I could think of was Andy & Trav running & frailing. Every time it came to mind I would just start giggling. My buddy kept going to the truck looking for my liquor bottle until I finally told him what I was laughing at.
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:26:05 +0000http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3518#comment-7370Andy – Pictures or video to make it a multi-media experience would have won you some type of web award for 2009. Great, great stuff.

56Coop – Same thing this summer. Lawnmower, yellow jackets. Unfortunately, I have neighbors and I think they were more afraid for their own well-being and their kids as I was shouting expletives, running through my yard, their yard, the street…anywhere in an attempt to evade the swarm. Took 5 to the legs and 1 to the arm. No reaction (thank goodness). Little mean bastards…

]]>By: joshywoshybigfatposhyhttps://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/i-hate-bees/#comment-7368
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:48 +0000http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3518#comment-7368i feel i should also mention that for a nano-second, my brain read the title as ‘i hate beers,’ before steady concentration corrected the frightening error and removed the hallucinated ‘r’ from my vision.

it was the most shocked/confused/betrayed sort of nano-second i’ve had in quite a while.

bees are scary because they fly like Muhammad Ali — in fact, his line should have been, “float like a bee, sting like a bee.”

]]>By: awhayeshttps://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/i-hate-bees/#comment-7363
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:33:16 +0000http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3518#comment-7363Very fun 56Coop. Very funny. Interesting rattlesnake theory – hard to say why else you may have had such a reaction if you didn’t have one before. I have heard the swarming thing about yellow jackets. In fact, what I’ve heard is that they have some kind of juice inside them so that whenever they are crushed (or, when they die on the grill of your car for example), other yellow jackets know the scent and swarm to it. I don’t know if this is true, but it does explain why you often find bees hanging around the front of your car after a trip. There is something very funny I think about bee stories – your’s just cracks me up. I think part of it is that they are so small yet can instill an incredible amount of fear in people.
]]>By: Travishttps://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/i-hate-bees/#comment-7362
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:14:18 +0000http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3518#comment-7362Wow I love this site!

Glad your both ok, but really interesting and at times, hilarious stories!

Just so you will know you are not alone let me tell you this. When I was 13 I was stung by a yellow jacket that had apparantly just been dining on a dead rattlesnake & I had the exact symptoms you described. I had been stung numerous times prior with no reaction which leads me to the rattlesnake conclusion. Quick trip to the emergency room and all was well. Kept an epi pen for years until my military stint and then just kind of forgot about the whole thing. Heck, I hadn’t been stung since.

Years ago my wife & I were fortunate enough to purchase 16 acres on a river. On one of my days off my wife informed me that I should clear a small patch of woods that bordered our driveway. After removing a few small dead/deformed trees I decided to tackle the remaining underbrush with my Toro. I ran over a yellow jackets nest and did not notice. They were not very happy with me. One stung me on the neck and when I swatted & killed it and discovered it was a yellow jacket I thought Oh &^%*.
Don’t know if you are familiar with yellow jackets but they actually swarm. Next thing I knew I had been stung twice more. I turned on my seat and saw the remainder of the soldier bees coming out of the hole in the ground. Tore into the house, called my wife & told her to get home immediately & hope I wasn’t dead when she got there. Killed 2 more of them in the shower. Got stung a total of 7 times but had no reaction thus enforcing my rattlesnake theory.

What was funny was when my wife got home and saw I was still alive she described the scene. My lawn mower was out in the woods–still running. My hat was about 10 feet from it, my t-shirt aobut 20 feet from there, my shorts at the entrance of the garage and my under wear was in the middle of the living room floor. Fortunately I have no neighbors within sight. There were 2 more yellow jackets in my underwear. Needless to say their lives ended shortly thereafter and the nest got a good soaking of gas and a match later on that night. Had to wait to make sure they were all in the nest. Guess I don’t need the epi pen after all.